Log a Load for Kids is more than a worthwhile benevolent effort. In addition to helping assure the future health and well being of children, it also spotlights the commitment to community service and professionalism of loggers and their forest products industry partners.

“Thanks to Log a Load for Kids, Children’s Hospital will continue to deliver the best in pediatric health care to all Alabama’s kids as well as the special focus on Child Abuse Intervention and Prevention (CHIPS). Loggers, landowners, wood products manufacturers and forest industry suppliers are shining examples of an industry putting the health and well being of children first in our state.” Dr. Jim Dearth, Chief Executive Officer, Children’s Hospital, Birmingham

Facts About Alabama's Log a Load for Kids Program:

Log a Load for Kids is a statewide campaign sponsored by the Alabama Loggers Council and the Alabama Forestry Association. Our goal is to unite loggers, landowners, foresters and wood products manufacturers in a common effort to benefit Alabama’s critically ill, injured and abused children.

The concept of Log a Load for Kids calls for loggers and others in the Alabama forestry community to donate what a load of logs is worth to a logger...about $350. Any size donation is appreciated and will be acknowledged. Either Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, or the University of South Alabama Children’s & Women’s Hospital, Mobile, may be designated as recipient.

Since its inception in 1992, Alabama’s Log a Load for Kids program has disbursed more than $5 million in support of Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. In fact, the 2007 total of $421,500 moved Alabama to $5.6 million in overall donations to the kids!

Funds raised in Alabama through Log a Load for Kids go to special Children's Miracle Network (CMN) hospitals that treat Alabama’s kids.

Children’s Miracle Network hospitals, such as the two in Alabama, pride themselves on providing care for any child, “ ...regardless of illness, injury or the family’s ability to pay!”

In 1995, Log a Load for Kids committed $750,000 to the start-up of the Children’s Hospital Intervention and Prevention Services (CHIPS) system, Alabama’s first statewide child-abuse treatment ; and in 1999 committed $250,000 annually to support CHIPS’ day-to-day operations.

Donations are announced during the CMN Champions National Television Special the weekend after Memorial Day on stations in Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile. The network special is produced by The Osmond Foundation and originates from Walt Disney World. Segments at the state level are hosted by local television and other area personalities.

“Log a Load for Kids support directly impacts the care we offer and, ultimately, the quality of life of the patiencenterts who come to us for care. Thus I have the privilege of witnessing the end result of Log a Load . . . children restored to health and going home to their parents. It’s something everyone in the Alabama forestry community should feel a part of as well as take pride in.” ----Dr. Becky DeVillier, Administrator, U.S.A. Children's & Women's Hospital, Mobile